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authorJann Horn <jannh@google.com>2020-03-17 01:28:45 +0100
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-03-18 09:21:51 -0700
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parentac309e7744bee222df6de0122facaf2d9706fa70 (diff)
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mm: slub: add missing TID bump in kmem_cache_alloc_bulk()
When kmem_cache_alloc_bulk() attempts to allocate N objects from a percpu freelist of length M, and N > M > 0, it will first remove the M elements from the percpu freelist, then call ___slab_alloc() to allocate the next element and repopulate the percpu freelist. ___slab_alloc() can re-enable IRQs via allocate_slab(), so the TID must be bumped before ___slab_alloc() to properly commit the freelist head change. Fix it by unconditionally bumping c->tid when entering the slowpath. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: ebe909e0fdb3 ("slub: improve bulk alloc strategy") Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index 17dc00e33115..eae5bb47b22f 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -3175,6 +3175,15 @@ int kmem_cache_alloc_bulk(struct kmem_cache *s, gfp_t flags, size_t size,
if (unlikely(!object)) {
/*
+ * We may have removed an object from c->freelist using
+ * the fastpath in the previous iteration; in that case,
+ * c->tid has not been bumped yet.
+ * Since ___slab_alloc() may reenable interrupts while
+ * allocating memory, we should bump c->tid now.
+ */
+ c->tid = next_tid(c->tid);
+
+ /*
* Invoking slow path likely have side-effect
* of re-populating per CPU c->freelist
*/